While there are essential fats and proteins, there are no essential sugars. Your body can work perfectly fine indefinitely without any sugars of any kind.
Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Because sugar isn’t unhealthy in the first place, you’ll die without any sugar.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
They’re probably thinking about glucose, which is the sugar in “blood sugar”. You’ll die without it, but it’s created endogenously in the liver and kidneys.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Most obtuse comment thus far.